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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#africa #after #among #breaking #every

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #ancestors #been #beloved #echo

I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on. ↗

— David Boreanaz

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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#indicated #making #mistake #much #never

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave